West Bradley Farmhouse And Attached Barn

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SS81SE BRADLEY 848-1/3/59 West Bradley Farmhouse and attached barn

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Farmhouse. C17 or possibly earlier. Rendered cob and rubble with 2 rear lateral stacks with rubble breasts, the central hall stack with tall brick shaft, the stack serving the higher end with fat rendered shaft; further lateral gabled stack to front right (behind wing); plain tile roof with eyebrowed eaves. PLAN: 3-room plan plus later wing at right angles in front of the right-hand side and C19 barn added to the left-hand end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Early or mid C20 2 and 3-light casement windows except for C19 2-light window with latticed cast-iron casements above hipped porch. Good C18 6-panel door within porch. Barn, left of the house, has central window over window, the upper window fitted with pigeon nesting boxes, the lower window an original 2-light casement; doorways at left and right and another doorway to 1st-floor centre of left-hand end, ledged doors, all the openings spanned by oak lintels. INTERIOR: has chamfered axial beams to the higher end which has an entrance hall and higher end room with a large rear fireplace. The hall has a crossbeam with deep chamfers and tongue stops, rear fireplace spanned by an oak lintel and there is an oven behind the left-hand jamb. The lower-end room has a large fireplace to the original front wall and the present kitchen is within the front wing. Late C17 or C18 oak roof structure has lapped collars and halved and crossed apexes.

Listing NGR: SS8919214100